"Limiting the freedom of news 'just a little bit' is in the same category with the classic example 'a little bit pregnant."
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"I think in politics, in Congress, you often do things that are Republican, or you do things because you're a Democrat. Sometimes that's good, obviously, and sometimes that's obviously bad. But in the news business, there's no such thing as Republican or Democratic news. News is news."
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"Believing everything she read In the daily news, (No in-between to choose) She thought that only One side won, Not that BOTH Might lose."
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"We cannot truly plan, because we do not understand the future-but this is not necessarily a bad news. We could plan while bearing in mind such limitations. It just takes guts."
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"If they asked me, I did two shifts. I did sports, I did news, because I loved it."
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"Newspapers have degenerated. They may now be absolutely relied upon."
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"The news media reported the $250 million as an unthinkably huge waste of money and proclaimed that something was wrong with NASA. The result was an investigation and a congressional hearing. Not to defend failure, but $250 million is not much more than the cost to produce Kevin Costner's film flop Waterworld."
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"But you will hardly ever read about them. Why? Because once again, the media has predetermined what is not worthy of coverage, even when the news item is something as uninteresting as the cosmic origin of every element in your body."
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"When I made coffee and Xeroxed and distributed newspapers at ABC News, I thought my life was over."
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"But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green."
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"I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead."
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"Babies, we are told, are the latest news from heaven."
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"I'm so fast I could hit you before God gets the news."
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"I've got news for Mr. Santayana: we're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive."
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"WE ARE STRUGGLING FOR A UNITING WORD BUT THE GOOD NEWS IS THAT WE HAVE A UNITING MOVEMENT."
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"It is an ill thing to be the first to bring news of ill."
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"The hackers who hacked into Sony have leaked the upcoming script for the new James Bond movie. Some of the executives said the news left them shaken but not stirred."
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"I have got this letter which actually goes out the day after I die. It has already been written. And it says that: "Yesterday I died". And then it says: "That's bad news for me, but it's not bad news for you, the shareholders of Berkshire". And then I go on and explain what is going to happen. I know that is one time when they will be really interested in hearing from me."
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"If't be summer news, Smile to't before; if winterly, thou need'st But keep that count'nance still."
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"But along with all of that it was, "Oh, isn't he a great storyteller? Oh, it's that why I married him? Isn't he handsome? Oh, what am I going to make for dinner today?" I put all of that as a part of [Roses's from "Fences"] inner everyday monologue so, by the time he tells he that news and all of that I feel that it's there already."
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